1. The Adolescent and
Anti- Family Issues

2. Marriage and the Family

3. Mt. 19: 1-12- presents
Christ in a gesture of
forbidding adultery and
divorce in marriage thus
upholding even from the
very beginning the
sanctity and fidelity of the
married couple, as well
as indissolubility of
marriage.

4. •Marriage- a powerful sign of love
that brings a couple closer to
Christ and to each other. It is a
vocation, a calling that is not for
everyone.
Christ and the Church
Groom and the Bride

5. The Family, Church at Home

6. • A man and a woman united
in marriage, together with
their children, form a
family.
• Its members are persons
equal in dignity. For the
common good of its
members and of society,
the family necessarily has
manifold responsibilities,
rights, and duties.

7. • Christian family- Church in
the home
- The primary community of
Christ’s disciples whose
members are bound are
bound together not only by
ties of flesh and blood but
by the grace but by the
grace and obedience to the
Father’s will.

8. “ The family is where the
journey in faith- life is
initiated and guided
towards maturity. Within
the family assisted by
educational institutions,
social conscience is
formed, and the life of
worship and prayer is
nurtured and integrated
with the sacramental life.

9. Duties of Children

10. 1. Respect for parents (filial
piety)
- Filial respect is shown by
true docility and
obedience.
- Filial respect promotes
harmony in all of family
life.

11. 2. As long as the child lives at
home with his parents,
the child should obey his
parents in all they ask of
him when it is for his good
or that of the family.
- This respect has its roots in
the fear of God, one of
the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

12. . Give their parents material
and moral support in old
age and in times of illness,
loneliness or distress.
4. Contribute to the growth
in holiness of their
parents.

13. Duties of Parents

14. 1. Procreation
2. Moral obligation for the
education and spiritual
formation of their children.
- To educate their children is
primordial and inalienable.
- To teach their children to
avoid compromising and
degrading influences which
threaten both human and
society.

15. 3. Respect their children as
human person.
- Regard children as children
of God.
4. Create a home where
tenderness, forgiveness,
respect, fidelity and
disinterested service are the
rules.
5. Give good example to their
children.

16. 6. Evangelize their children.
a. Bring up their children in the
discipline and instruction of the
Lord.
b. Parents should be the “first
heralds” for their children.
c. Teach their children to pray and to
discover their vocation as
children of God.
- Family members help one another
to grow in faith by the witness of
a Christian life in keeping with the
Gospel.
- The parish as the Eucharistic
community and the heart of the
liturgical life of Christian families.

17. Christian family- a privileged
place for the catechesis of
children and parents.
- The first school of
discipleship.
- Family home
- Rightly called the
“Domestic Church”

18. Rights of the Family

19. 1. The right to exist and
progress as a family, even
if he or she is poor, to
found a family and to
have adequate means to
support it;
2. The right to exercise its
responsibility regarding
the transmission of life
and to educate children;

20. 3. The right to the intimacy of
conjugal and family life;
4. The right to bring up
children in accordance
with the family’s own
traditions and religious
and cultural values, with
the necessary
instruments, means and
institutions;

21. 5. The right to protect minors
by adequate institutions
and legislation from
harmful drugs,
pornography, alcoholism,
etc.
6. The right of the elderly to a
worthy life and a worthy
death.

22. Anti- Family Issues

23. 1. Divorce
2. Abortion,
sterilization and
contraception
3. Free- union or living
in
4. Trial marriage
5. Adultery